The mist theater's premiere drama "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" has aired 8 episodes, and the overall progress has passed two-thirds.
But unlike last year's hit "The Hidden Corner", this suspense drama that gathers old drama bones such as Duan Yihong, Hao Lei, Zu Feng, Wu Yue and Xing Minshan, has a word-of-mouth differentiation at the beginning, and directly touches the bottom passing line at the beginning, which can be said to be unsatisfactory.
What was supposed to be a wave of king fried turned out to be a chicken rib, and many people blamed the newcomer actor Mira.
Mira plays the Role of The Xuan family in the play, the proportion of the role is not much, say less, but because the whole story revolves around her, so in a group portrait play without an obvious protagonist, she naturally attracts a lot of attention.
A lot of attention is a double-edged sword for actors, because while increasing their popularity, they will also be subject to more stringent requirements.
If Mira can be as good as the three little actors in "The Hidden Corner", she can naturally succeed in the circle.
But in fact, her acting skills have not reached the level that can convince most people, and her line skills are weak and her expression control is rigid, which is fully displayed in the slow-paced narrative of "Octagonal Pavilion Mist".
What's worse is that the screenwriter also arranged a "unique beauty" persona for the character that does not meet her true appearance at all.
And let Tu Zhiying, who is obviously more beautiful than her, praise her "people see people love", so excessive sense of violation, let the audience feel that Mira is "bringing funds into the group", with her own strength to pull down the level of the whole drama.
Open the bad review of "Octagonal Pavilion Mist", it is not difficult to find that half of the slot points fall on Mira.
However, was the defeat of The Octagonal Pavilion Mist entirely caused by Mira alone?
After watching the entire eight episodes, I can say with certainty: No!
The reason why this drama will "roll over" is that the improper narrative method, rough details and messy editing are the "culprits".
Before filming "The Mist of the Octagonal Pavilion", Wang Xiaoshuai had already shot two films with similar themes.
Among them, 14 years of "Intruder" is refreshing and well-received, and 19 years of "Long Days" has also won many honors, which seems to make Wang Xiaoshuai full of confidence in his narrative method of combining family and suspense themes.
Therefore, in "The Mist of the Octagonal Pavilion", we can see Wang Xiaoshuai repeating his old skills and basing suspense on the discussion of family ethics.
The combination of family drama and suspense drama is not without success, and "The Hidden Corner" is the best example.
Zhu Chaoyang's unsound growth environment and the suspense of Zhang Dongsheng's criminal motives are skillfully integrated and complemented each other, which not only makes people wonder about the plot thoroughly, but also allows the audience to empathize with the encounters of the two characters, playing a 1+1>2 effect.
Logically speaking, the Nian Ming in "The Mist of the Octagonal Pavilion" also has an unsound growth environment, and the murderer in the play also has an unfathomable criminal motive, and the combination of the two can undoubtedly become another "Hidden Corner".
However, Wang Xiaoshuai did not adopt the narrative method of "The Hidden Corner", he followed the technique of his first two films, opening with the message of "evil people" as the greatest suspense, and then releasing smoke bombs to interfere with the audience's judgment while exposing Nian Ming's life.
This narrative method is a very typical suspense film narrative, because in the limited viewing time, there is not much room for the audience to think calmly, and constantly throwing smoke bombs to finally reveal the truth will make the audience feel a sense of refreshment to the end.
But can a TV series be narrated in the same way as a movie?
Even 12 short dramas like the Mist Theater are broadcast in 2 weeks, leaving a lot of time for the audience to think, and no matter how bizarre the setting is, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no "big god" who can reason during the broadcast.
In fact, some netizens have long locked the villain as The Leader of Ding According to clues such as screenshots and cast members, the biggest suspense of the drama as a treasure has become a joke.
What's more, "Octagonal Pavilion" just set Xuanliang and Teacher Tian as suspects, and after a series of reasoning processes that are not clever in setting up to eliminate suspicions, the plot has passed halfway through, and if the truth is not revealed immediately, the back is simply not enough time to sublimate the theme.
However, in the latest plot, Wang Xiaoshuai is still throwing smoke bombs, not only focusing on The Xuanzhu played by Hao Lei, but also introducing a new character Ji Guang, such a deliberate design, can no one see that it is to cover the "seemingly innocent" Kun opera troupe?
In the eyes of the audience whose viewing level is increasing, the suspense drama uses a large number of smoke bombs to disturb the audio-visual is simply "three hundred and two silver here".
It is better to tell everyone that the "evil person" is Zhang Dongsheng at the beginning of "The Hidden Corner", and then focus the suspense on Zhu Chaoyang, and gradually trigger the "evil" hidden by Zhu Chaoyang as the plot unfolds, and the effect is even more frightening.
In addition, the extensiveness of the details of "Octagonal Pavilion Mist" is also very dramatic.
For example, in the opening chapter, the two little girls were chased by a motorcycle for half a day and did not catch up, even if they did not see a drop of sweat.
Is it that the motorcycle is not enough horsepower to run manpower, or because the two girls are too beautiful, so "beauty has no sweat"?
Although the appropriate artistic processing of film and television dramas does not affect the content expression, the artistic processing that does not pay attention to details often makes it difficult for the audience to substitute for the plot during the viewing process, thus affecting the perception.
What makes people feel speechless is that as the plot progresses, similar extensive details not only do not decrease, but become more and more obvious.
For example, in the latest plot, Yuan Fei, played by Duan Yihong, actually wants to find Xuan Liang to take a photo of Xuan Zhen, not to mention the reason why he took the photo, but actually just to prove that Xuan Zhen and Nian Ming really look like so boring.
Let's say that Xuanzhen, as the victim of a major case 19 years ago, did not have a single photo left in her official file?
No wonder the case-handling personnel in the play have not been able to solve the case for 19 years, can such a sloppy investigation procedure accurately collect useful information?
If this is not a domestic drama, I would suspect that there are ghosts in the case-handling staff, and they are colluding with the murderers.
Finally, perhaps to cover up the truth and set up suspense, the splicing traces of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" are very obvious.
The scene where Ru Nian And Xuan Min pour rain on the roof begins inexplicably and ends soundlessly.
Another example is that Before Mu Ge disappeared, he deliberately arranged a scene to go to Teacher Tian's dormitory, but he never explained the reason.
This kind of beginningless and endless fragment not only does not help the story to advance, but also makes people feel that they are making things up.
Even if it can echo the plot later, is it not smoother to access it as a memory when needed? It can be seen that the editing level of the play is very worrying.
However, because these edits did not seriously affect the plot, they could be reluctantly accepted for a while.
But in the latest plot, this low-level editing problem has obviously affected the rationality of the plot.
Zhou Yamei, a Cantonese opera troupe teacher played by Wu Yue, because she saw the newly purchased jewelry of the troupe, she remembered that when she disguised herself to worship Xuanzhen, she lost a rare pendant because she was chased by XuanLiang.
Based on her previous conversations with Xuanzhu, we can infer that it has been many days since the pendant was lost.
A piece of jewelry the size of a palm and a lot of value, lost for several days without realizing, is Zhou Yamei rich and oily, or suffering from amnesia? But judging from her accurate memory of which tree she lost under and looked panicked, it didn't make sense.
What is even more inexplicable is that when Zhou Yamei saw XuanZhen's tombstone, she also recalled the plot of the jewelry related to Xuanzhen's murder, which seemed to indicate that jewelry was a key piece of evidence, which could prove that the Kun opera troupe had a lot to do with Xuanzhen's murder.
According to the great god's speculation, the wicked man is most likely commander Ding, and Zhou Yamei is an accomplice who disguises evidence of crime.
Since jewelry is the key piece of evidence, is it a little strange that Zhou Yamei, as an accomplice, wears it on her body when worshipping the victim?
And such an important thing, lost for several days without remembering, is it that Zhou Yamei has not taken a bath and washed clothes these days?
It cannot be denied that Wu Yue, as an old drama bone, showed excellent acting skills when performing this scene.
However, due to problems in the plot editing, the more realistic she acted, the more it seemed that the role of Zhou Yamei was unreasonable.
According to the normal plot development, Zhou Yamei was flustered after escaping the scene, coupled with the fact that the troupe's new clothes needed her to handle the reception procedures, and for a while she did not realize that the pendant was lost.
Therefore, Zhou Yamei found that the plot of the lost pendant should not be delayed until after this.
Because Wang Xiaoshuai needed to "throw smoke bombs" and wanted to minimize the suspicion of the Kun Opera Troupe in the early stage, he would cut this scene to the back, thinking that he could blur the timeline to fool through the pass.
But it was self-defeating, and the audience was confused and wasted Wu Yue's superb acting skills.
In summary, the failure of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" was not caused by an actor, Wang Xiaoshuai's improper adaptation of the script, and when shooting, he was too attached to his own style and ignored the details, which was an important reason for the failure of the series.
I am a wooden branch of the dangerous building, what do you think about "editing low-level details is extensive, the failure of "Octagonal Pavilion Mystery Fog" has become a foregone conclusion, and Wang Xiaoshuai cannot escape the blame"? Feel free to leave your comments below.
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